I like When Hauntings Get Annoying the most. Very relatable!

Those are patented by Nintendo :(

Yup, transport companies use the word “trans” without “port” so often here there are a lot of funny ones. TopTrans is one of the leading B2B transport solutions and also a dream for many T4T people. Their mascot, anthropomorphised lightning, looks funny too…

Jsem si dost jistý, že je to v přírodě normální, nejen u australských ptáků. Primáti včetně člověka se rodí mnohem méně vyvinutí, aby mohli mít dospělí větší mozek a přesto se zvládli dostat z dělohy. Mládě potřebuje mnohem více péče, než je obvyklé, ale opice jsou to schopné poskytnout.

They have an LED each in the top-right corner of the corresponding dot. The LEDs use different driving signals (much higher frequency and not just when the display changes) but are kept in sync with the slow-updating display to allow both technologies to complement each other: they do work in total darkness and faulty dots have LEDs as a fallback; the LEDs are half-brightness at night, full brightness at dusk and off in daylight.

Also, they were significantly LESS expensive than a sufficiently luminous LED display in the 90s before superbright LEDs existed.

As I said in another comment, they weren’t designed for ads but info signage, so they don’t actively catch attention, which is what you want to get a visually cleaner environment.

It wouldn’t be practical, there are lots of chicks in the Fediverse.

I’ll pass, tell me when you get a haunted one. It’s actually pretty hard to get a property haunted nowadays because of all the building code.

Why is a sporting organization relevant, rather than a geographical one?

This is in general for LED text signs. The “inventors” (more like engineers because they just combined multiplexing with superbright LEDs) OP mentioned probably didn’t specify a purpose, they just wanted a more reliable alternative to mechanical or manual signage but yes, most are for ads.

They do need to be that bright at daytime, and most indeed use automatic brightness by default. If only there was a technology that could use daylight instead of fighting it…

There are many more problems… Creating that vacuum takes time and the centripetal forces involved limit what you can launch. Mammals and complex machinery are a no-go.

Thunderf00t made a good one.

Fuck. My autistic self has enough problems already and recently I get all gender-questioning while hugging my Blåhaj (still comfortably cis by day though). Seeing articles that imply I am “at risk” of being queer does not help: I don’t want to go through the phase of finding out and potentially having to tackle the choices and processes involved before I sort out my ADHD-like symptoms. Trans folk REALLY is brave to have picked the fight against all the social norms. Should I unsubscribe from 196 to hopefully reduce the temptation to find out? Yes, I’m a bit of a coward.

Every single one in the Czech Republic. Some only play if you are slow to whip out the next item or card.

“Scan your [trademark] loyalty app to collect 3 points”

Doesn’t mention the tiny “skip” button on the screen.

Principle: water clock, see-saw balance. Water drips from a bottle through a mechanical filter, reducing its weight and continuously swaying the solar panel. Needs to be refilled in the morning of course.

By the way, the thumbnail pic shows a misadjusted one, that solar panel is very much not facing the sun.

You only need one axis for the daily movement (it’s not horizontal except for the rare few days between the tropics but you can modify the design to use a slanted one). A manual yearly movement can be done by having the user move a lever to the next date mark when refilling the bottle every day.

“The Fediverse Chick” like there’s just one

Everyone knows !femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone and !mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone is full of cuties

There is still reason to pressure Google in the US (based on this policy of theirs) and especially abroad (as they plan to use both names outside USA and Mexico). Otherwise, they are handing Trump an easy win.

Very Far Away Horse really needs to be restarted sometimes. Due to a floating point error, every neigh moves the horse ⅛ of a millimeter closer. The color inversion is due to your misadjusted TV, though.